The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

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.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

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