"The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to c...

"Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and natu...

"They who assert that figure, motion, and the rest of the primary or original qualities do exist without the mind in unthinking substan...

"Water flows, clouds move, never stopping or settling down. When the wind blows, the leaves fall. Like the fish swimming or the birds f...

"Visual artists, from the generation born in the 1860s to contemporary times, have turned to a variety of antimaterialist philosophies,...

"Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anym...

"From the timeless beginning to the present, the mountains have always been the dwelling place of the great sages. Wise ones and sages ...

"The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even t...

"I have the joy of being able to tell you that, though deaf and blind, I spent a glorious hour last night listening over the radio to B...

"The function of consciousness is to represent information about what is happening outside and inside the organism in such a way that i...

"Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present. ... Many of the peculiariti...

"One must then go on to a consideration of time as a projection of multidimensional reality into a sequence of moments. ... Thought div...

"A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a...

"One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature — inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste...

"'Is this a moment?' He asks in a very loud voice. 'No, not anymore.' And this one? Not anymore either. All you have is...

 "In all ages even among scientific men, there can be discerned the urge to apprehend the living form as such, to grasp the connections...

"Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath enlarges all of space. Let your presence ring out like a bell into the night. Wh...

"You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a ...

"Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we hav...

"A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers fe...