We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.