In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.