These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.