For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.