when you came into this world, there gradually arose into being this sensation of "i." and you feel that you are "i" just as much as i feel that i am "i". but all the time everywhere there are other "i's" starting up, whether they be human, animal, anything you like. it could be in other galaxies, etc, always they're starting up. and so the feeling that we call "i" is how everything feels on the inside. you could get a certain vision of life where everything is seen to be a complex pattern of rhythm, dances, the human dance, the flower dance, the bee dance, the giraffe dance, and that's what this all is, it's jazz. this is a big jazz, this world. and what it's trying to do is to see how jazzed up it can get, how far out this play of rhythm can go.

--Alan Watts