Neighbors spoke of good fortune. The whole cosmos is implicit in every member of it, and every point in it may be regarded as its center. . . . become as an infant, knowing nothing except what you hear, see, smell, feel. Take it that you are not going anywhere but here, and that here never was, is or will be any other time than now. Simply be aware of what actually is without giving it names and without judging it, for you are now feeling out reality itself instead of ideas and opinions about it . . . . . . There is no way of putting a stream in a bucket or the wind in a bag.
Thoughts grow in brains as grass grows in fields.
Although thought is in nature, we must not confuse the game-rules of thought with the patterns of nature. The greatest hindrance to objective knowledge is our own subjective presence. The seed grows into the plant by an expansion from within. However, when it is looked at section by section we find conflict. The biological world is a mutual eating society in which every species is the prey of another.