a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his… - Alan Watts

[A]ny system which leaves the individual upon one horn of the dualistic dilemma is at best the achievement of courageous despair.

In sum, then, te is the unthinkable ingenuity and creative power of man’s spontaneous and natural functioning–a power which is blocked when one tries to master it in terms of formal methods and techniques.

This recognition of the two-sidedness of the One is what makes the difference between the exoteric and esoteric aspects of a religion, and the latter is always guarded and is always
mystical or ''closed'' [...] because of the danger that the opposites will be confused if their unity is made explicit. It is thus that mysticism is never quite orthodox, never wholly respectable.