A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

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.

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.