"Furthermore when the dualism of thinker and thought disappears so does that of subject and object. The individual no more feels himself to be standing back from his sensations of the external world, just as he is no longer a thinker standing back from his thoughts. He therefore has a vivid sense of himself as identical with what he sees and hears, so that his subjective impression comes into accord with the physical fact that man in not so much an organism *in* an environment as an organism-environment relationship. The relationship is, as it were, more real that its two terms, somewhat as the inner unity of a stick is more solid than the difference of its two ends.
" --Alan Watts