Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.