Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

There is light. There is darkness. There is high and there is low. But in the world now it seems to me this struggle between light and darkness is more evident than ever.

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.