(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

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

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude

…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.

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.