We are so enthralled by the subjects of our thoughts that we find it more difficult to observe the process that makes thinking possible or the abstraction and condensation that thinking entails. Furthermore, we experience our capacity to think as a need, whether as a need to think or a need to stop thinking ! Sometimes, the subject of our thoughts may be death, and we may sometimes experience thinking about or imagining death as a need. Ultimately, though, what makes us think is the activity of being fully alive.