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.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

The menu is not the meal.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.