Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.