The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Read Summary
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. Read Summary
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Read Summary
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Read Summary
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. Read Summary
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Read Summary
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Read Summary
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Read Summary
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. Read Summary
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. Read Summary
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. Read Summary
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 them. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Read Summary
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Read Summary
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Read Summary
I owe my solitude to other people. Read Summary
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. Read Summary