Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.