Go back to the basics after you have learnt the specifics. If you can not explain your conclusions to common man all the theory is of no avail.

-- one of the life experiences.

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" - Freud

Often times we are so engrossed in explaining everything that we forget that sometimes things are just things and there is no deep hidden meaning to them. Before we succumb to the hyper-analytical brains desire to analyze everything, lets remember the purpose of life is much simpler - just freaking live.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there is nothing left to do, and nothing else to pursue.

-- Hagakure (In the Shadow of Leaves)

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

-- Dune by Frank Herbert

The air that you breathe,
or the room that you live in,
none of this is close.

Close is what lives inside...