Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.