I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.

I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.