I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.