Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.