Now, if I brought you up to the Continental Divide, and you saw these majestic mountains that are covered with snow, up at 14,000 feet, a world beyond what most of us experience in our daily life, just in terms of natural beauty, but if you were there and you were worried about your investments, your health was lousy, you were worried that someone was dating someone who you were in love with, you were discouraged because things weren't working out in your career - you would go up there and you would be so self-involved with your mind, with the thoughts, the sharks that were swimming through the sea of your mental consciousness, that you wouldn't enjoy it.  Or, after years of living this way, your perceptions would be so dulled that you wouldn't even really see on a basic sensory level what was in front of you.  You would live in such a world of illusion that when you looked at it, it wouldn't mean much.  It wouldn't touch your heart.  You'd be dead.

Modular Mysticism: Love - The Fourth Level of Ecstasy