the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. - Alan Watts

We are creatures rearranged, for biological existence continues only through the mutual slaughter and ingestion of its various species. I exist solely through membership in this perfectly weird arrangement of beings that flourish by chewing each other up.

The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology,

But if we were to realize that we are, as it were, all action, all deed — the doer vanishes, and with it vanishes this sense of man as something separate, something cut off, walled away from the rest of the world by his skin. When that realization comes about; when, in other words, our own separateness disappears, we have what the Buddha called nirvana