I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

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?

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.