This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.