Logic, intelligence, and reason are satisfied, but the heart goes hungry. - Alan Watts

It is convention alone which persuades me that I am simply this body bounded by a skin in space, and by birth and death in time.

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

Psychotherapists ... are dealing with people whose distress arises from what may be termed maya, to use the Hindu-Buddhist word whose exact meaning is not merely 'illusion' but the entire world-conception of a culture, considered as illusion in the strict etymological sense of a play (Latin, ludere). The aim of a way of liberation is not the destruction of maya but seeing it for what it is, or seeing through it. Play is not to be taken seriously, or, in other words, ideas of the world and of oneself which are social conventions and institutions are not to be confused with reality.