Tools such as these, as well as the tools of language and thought, are of real use to men only if they are awake — not lost in the dreamland of past … - Alan Watts

[W]hen the knowledge and love of God is considered to exclude other goals and other creatures, God is actually put on a par with his creatures. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of creatures can exclude one another only if they are of the same kind. One must choose between yellow and blue, as two of the kind colour, but there is no need to choose between yellow and round, since what is round can also be yellow.

However, when you say to yourself, “I must go on living,” you put yourself in a double bind because you submit to a process which is essentially spontaneous and then insist it must happen.

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