We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.
...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.
I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.
As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.