Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.