"We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly."
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
"…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"and so it goes away. Puzzling."