The brain can only assume its proper behavior when consciousness is doing what it is designed for: not writhing and whirling to get out of present ex… - Alan Watts

However, until there is silence of the mind, it is almost impossible to understand eternal life, that is to say, eternal now.

My sense of kinship with this world is not only with its obviously sympathetic and and beautiful aspects, but also with the horrendous and strange. For I have found that the monstrous and inhuman aspects of fish and insects and reptiles are not so much in them as in me. They are external embodiments of my natural creeps and shudders at the thought of pain and death.

The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster.