Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

Courage is the goal of cowards.