When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear.
The universe is a self-organizing system, and consciousness is a part of that system.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
现在不是去想缺少什么的时候,该想一想凭现有的东西你能做什么。
No man knows, or ever will know, the truth about the gods and about everything I speak of; for even if one chanced to say the complete truth, yet one knows it not; but seeming is wrought over all things.