There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.