The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.