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

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.