It is simply being aware of this present experience, and realizing that you can neither define it nor divide yourself from it. There is no rule but “… - Alan Watts

Now I'm sure that most of you know the old story about the astronaut, who went far out into space, and was asked on his return whether he'd been to heaven and seen God. And he said: "Yes". And so they said to him: "Well, what about God?" And he said: "She's Black".

If we are to have intense pleasures, we must also be liable to intense pains.

[T]he natural universe is not a linear system. It involves an infinitude of variables interacting simultaneously, so that it would take incalculable aeons to translate even one moment of its operation into linear, alphabetic language.