The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

There is no one right way to live.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.

God can only show you eternity if you are willing to let go completely of the now.

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

She's stupid, isn't she, Emily?

Love, like Edg'd tools, should never be played with.