“I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.

The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Your god is too small for my universe.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

I don’t want to believe. I want to know.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Your results are an expression of your level of awareness.

The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That’s really what new alchemy’s all about.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.