...We suffer from a hallucination... 

...from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms... 

...Most of us have the sensation that ' I myself ' is a separate center of feeling and action... 

...living inside and bounded by the physical body... 

...a center which ' confronts ' an ' external ' world of people and things... 

...making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange... 

...Everyday figures of speech reflect this illusion... 

...' I came into this world '... 

...' You must face reality '...

...' The conquest of nature '...

- Alan Watts -