I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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.

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.