Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

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

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.