Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.