But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.