Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
Alan WattsEssentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.
Alan WattsEvery intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Alan WattsEvery individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
Alan Watts