There is an ever-widening chasm between the real and the possibility of escape from isolation! And the self, which is pulled apart and stretched tight in between the two like a carcass in the jaws of fighting wild dogs, lives in pain – in longing! See… see – oh, this is so frustrating! Longing is… longing is… is where the two illusions – the senses and the dream – meet, it is where they recognize themselves in difference from the other! And the self, possessed and deluded in turns by both but belonging to neither, lives in the purgatory of the living – in longing!”

The Long Reverie of Partha Sarma by C. Sriram.