I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.