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

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

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

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts