More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.