Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

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

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.