"I can't see why anybody — unless he was a child, or an angel, or a lucky simpleton like the pilgrim — would even want…"

"There are many monisms. What they share is that they attribute oneness. Where they differ is in what they target and …"

"The Immortal Principle was first called water by Thales. Anaximenes called it air. The Pythagoreans called it number …"

"Jesus knew — knew — that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stup…"

"I'll tell you a terrible secret — Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.…"

"Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate — separated from everything. … And they're not. They're part o…"

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken…"

"The Bhagavadgita may be treated as a great synthesis of the ideas of the impersonal spiritual monism with personalist…"

"No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many fac…"