But most of us know that we will not, and probably cannot do it — that we shall continue to cling to our habitual ways of life with all the helplessn… - Alan Watts

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

This is not a philosophy of not looking where one is going; it is a philosophy of not making where one is going so much more important than where one is that there will be no point in going.

Nevertheless, the physical reality is that my body exists only in relation to this universe, and in fact I am as attached to it and dependent on it as a leaf on a tree. I feel cut off only because I am split within myself, because I try to be divided from my own feelings and sensations. What I feel and sense therefore seems foreign to me. And on being aware of the unreality of this division, the universe does not seem foreign any more.