If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.

Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.