Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. - Alan Watts

It is simply being aware of this present experience, and realizing that you can neither define it nor divide yourself from it.

The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead. If, then, we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures. Without such willingness there can be no growth in the intensity of consciousness.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.