You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.