Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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 experience itself anything less than a god.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.