There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.