For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.