For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

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

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?