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We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.

I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.