And because religion was being misused as a means for actually grasping and possessing the mystery of life, a certain measure of “debunking” was highly necessary. But in the process of symbolizing the universe in this way or that for this purpose or that we seem to have lost the

I am chained to the fear only so long as I am trying to get away from it.

the best pleasures are those for which we do not plan,

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart. The movement in which I am a pattern or convolution began incalculable ages before the (conventionally isolated) event called birth, and will continue long after the event called death. Only words and conventions can iso

Free from clutching at themselves the hands can handle; free from looking after themselves the eyes can see; free from trying to understand itself thought can think.

Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward—whether

for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.

Furthermore, the growth of an acute sense of the past and the future gives us a correspondingly dim sense of the present.

Music is a delight because of its rhythm and flow. Yet the moment you arrest the flow and prolong a note or chord beyond its time, the rhythm is destroyed. Because life is likewise a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts. To work for their exclusion is to work against life.