In the long run, hell and heaven are both seen to be traps, and final liberation comes with realizing that there is nothing to choose between them. - Alan Watts

Liberation is not the release of the soul from the body; it is recovery from the tactical split between the soul and the body which seems to be necessary for the social discipline of the young. It therefore sets reason and culture not against Eros but at the disposal of Eros, of the “polymorphous perverse” body which always retains the potentiality of a fully erotic relationship with the world — not just through the genital system but through the whole sensory capacity.

Most of us believe in order to feel secure, in order to make our individual lives seem valuable and meaningful.

a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.