Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

Duality is always secretly unity.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.