In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.