When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

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.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

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

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.