But the mind-body is a system which conserves and accumulates energy. While doing this it is properly lazy. When the energy is store, it is just as h… - Alan Watts

fear is born of duality —

Science and psychotherapy have also done much already to liberate us from the prison of isolation from nature in which we were supposed to renounce Eros, despise the physical organism, and rest all our hopes in a supernatural world [...].
This liberation is, in other words, a very partial affair even for the small minority which has fully understood and accepted it. It leaves us still as strangers in the cosmos-without the judgment of God but without his love, without the terrors of Hell but without the hope of Heaven, without many of the physical agonies of pre-scientific times but without the sense that human life has any meaning.

Just as true humour is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.