"All human happiness is biological happiness... all human happiness is sensuous happiness." The material/spiritual split is a fraud: the partition separating flesh from spirit is extremely thin. Digestion, sleep, a cool spring on a parched throat, the morning air after sleep — these aren't crude preludes to the "real" pleasures. Art, affection, music, even religious feeling all arrive through the senses. Deny the body and you get a world with "knowledge without understanding, criticism without appreciation, beauty without love, truth without passion."

— In our words · Source: The Importance of Living (Lin Yutang)