Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

Certainly in terms of technology, it's made a tremendous impact, but medicine is still within the realm of what we might call "objective" science. It's still part of the objective way of looking at the world.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.

I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.