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

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.