Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

...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.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

The mind's the standard of the man.