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

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.