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

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

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

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.