To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

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.

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.