The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.