And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

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