The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

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.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

You can't have something without nothing.

Duality is always secretly unity.