Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

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.

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.