I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

Black implies white self implies other

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.