But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

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

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.