Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.