There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.