We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

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

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.