And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.