How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.

We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.

Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.

The hourglass runs low.

Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.