You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.