Everybody starts out living in a fragmented, broken, dualistic,
brutalized state. The world is divided into subject versus object, self
versus other, me in here versus the world out there. Once the world is
broken in two, the world knows only pain, suffering, torment, terror. In
the gap between subject and object lies the entire misery of humankind.
--kw. / p. 61 the simple feeling of being