“The joy of the spirit ever abides,
But not what seems pleasant to the senses.”
- The Upanishads

"When we perceive ourselves existing we have the sensation of a stupefied man who surprises his own lunacy and vainly seeks to give it a name. Habituation blunts our amazement at being: we "are"-- and move on, we go back to our place in the asylum of the existing."
- Cioran