We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.