The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

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.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.