No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.