To give free rein to the course of feeling is therefore to observe it without interference, recognizing that because feeling is motion it is not to b… - Alan Watts

Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of being and nonbeing is the fear of death.

It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some would prefer to say, without comparable progress in education and rational thinking. Yet the problem is more basic. The root of the matter is the way in which we feel and conceive ourselves as human beings, our sensation of being alive, of individual existence and identity.

the greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world.