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.

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

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

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

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.