It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.