Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.