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

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.