What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.