"you are not used to this kind of life; therefore the indications bypass you. yet you are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. you dwell upon yourself too much. that's the trouble. and that produces a terrible fatigue."

"but what else can anyone do, don Juan?"

"seek and see the marvels all around you. you will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else"

-- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda