Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.