Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.