Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.