Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can...

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how...

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.