The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

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