Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Everything that gets born dies.