This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come OUT of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe…Even those who know [this] to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin.
Alan Watts, The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are

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