But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

The mind's the standard of the man.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.