There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.