"The British and the Western Europeans in general, as well as the North Americans, waste the space of their homes with these rooms for ludicrously va… - Alan Watts

В действительности же, нет возможности отделить себя от мира, любви к себе от любви к кому-то другому. Любое знание о себе является знанием о другом, а любое знание другого — знанием о себе. — начинаю видеть, что “я” и другой, знакомое и незнакомое, внутреннее и внешнее, предсказуемое и непредсказуемое — подразумевают друг друга.

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth.

[W] are belatedly realizing that the ill-treatment of the environment is damage to ourselves - for the simple reason that the subject and object cannot be separated, and that we and our surroundings are the process of a unified field[.]