Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

What would you do if money was no object?

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.