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.	What makes things hard to see is not their strangeness, but their usualness. Familiarity can blind you.

.	The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

.	Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

.	Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

.	The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

.	We take a handful of sand from an endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

.	The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

.	One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

.	To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

.	New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

.	Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

.	Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

.	Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.