It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.