The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.