Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

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