Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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

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... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

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