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What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.
Carlos Castaneda
(1931 - )
Source: Active Side of Infinity, Harper Collins, 2000
Contributed by: Asavari Honavar.
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The idea just dawned on my friend-teacher: He says that because of our (long) history as a human race, we've become (almost) complacent of our continuity, and thus the sense of immortality. And because of such knowledge, we've almost completely forgotten the experiential meaning of an individual, present life.