...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.