We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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