Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.