Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology but to break down the barrier of dualistic thought and understand technology for what it is—a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.

One thing about pioneers that you don’t hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers.

People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands… the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, ‘If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.’ He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.

The idea that ‘all men are created equal’ is a gift to the world from the American Indian.

The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Out of college, money spent, see no future, pay no rent...

One sweet dream came true today, came true today...

Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for ‘art,’ because for Indians everything is art.

Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended

Jesus… invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe… he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer’s hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.

To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butter over it.

Buddhism begins with a man who shook off the daze, the doze, the dream-like vagaries of ordinary awareness. It begins with a man who woke up.

Hinduism advises people to think of God as the archetype of the noblest reality they encounter in the natural world.

The only unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one’s understanding of the ultimate nature of things.

Hinduism encourages people to test all four [being reflective, emotional, active, or experimental] and combine them as best suits their needs.

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.