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

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

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.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.