A Christianity which is not basically mystical must become either a political ideology or a mindless fundamentalism. - 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.

"Under any civilized conditions it is, of course, impossible for anyone to act without laying plans, or to refuse absolutely to participate in an economy of waste and violence, [...]. It is, however, possible to see that this competitive "rat race" need not be taken seriously, or rather, that if we are to persist in it at all it must not be taken seriously unless "nervous breakdowns are to become as common as colds

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.