But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.