There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites – conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
Humans are almost always lonely.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.
I’m the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me.
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It’s gone, but we remain.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Grief is the price of victory.