For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from itâas if it were quite other than himselfâand then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflictsâbased on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process. -
Alan Watts