Thus in using myth one must take care not to confuse image with fact, which would be like climbing up the signpost instead of following the road.

There was a young man who said, Though It seems that I know that I know, What I would like to see Is the ‘I' that knows ‘me' When I know that I know that I know.

Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

For the coherent continuity of any one individual is much like a whirlpool in a river; it is there day after day, although the water itself never stays put. You could even say that there is no such thing as a whirlpool, but that the river is whirlpooling in the same way that the universe eyes and the plant flowers.

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

Perpetual leaves are, as we know, made of plastic, and there may come a time when surgeons will be able to replace all our organs with plastic substitutes, so that you will achieve immortality by becoming a plastic model of yourself.

It seems obvious that the universe is a system which, by means of living bodies, becomes aware of itself—up to a point.

I owe my solitude to other people.

If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

Being high on LSD and drunk on bourbon. True, no one in either state should drive a car, but neither should one drive while reading a book, playing a violin, or making love.