So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.