Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

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