It is this participation in the essential glorious nonsense that is at the heart of the world, not necessarily going anywhere. It seems that only in … - Alan Watts

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 helplessness of addicts to a destroying passion.

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

Additionally, in the United States, we define manliness in terms of aggression. I think it must be because we're frightened. We put on a show of being tough guys, but it's completely unnecessary, you know. If you have what it takes, you don't need to put on an act, and you certainly don't need to beat nature into submission. Why be hostile to nature?