A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

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

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.