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

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

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

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.

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

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.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.