If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.