What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

The menu is not the meal.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.