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

The more you read, the more you calm down.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

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

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

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.