Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.