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.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.