Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by biological patterns as social patterns are dominated by biological patterns and as biological patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. There is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter. As the atomic scientist, Niels Bohr, said, "We are suspended in language." Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.