We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.

Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.

The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.