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.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.