As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves — the brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the bra… - Alan Watts

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

[T]he world is a system of inseparable relationships and not a mere juxtaposition of things. The verbal, piecemeal and analytic mode of perception has blinded us to the fact that things and events do not exist apart from each other. The world is a whole greater than the sum of its parts because the parts are not merely summed - thrown together - but related. The whole is a pattern which remains, while the parts come and go, just as the human body is a dynamic pattern which persists despite the rapid birth and death of all its individual cells. The pattern does not, of course, exist disembodiedly apart from individual forms, but exists precisely through their coming and going - just as it is through the structured motion and vibration of its electrons that a rock has solidity.

To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn’t fixed.