“Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.”

“In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.”

“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. ”

“You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.”

“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”

“In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.”

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”

“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”

“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”

“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”