Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules