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.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

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

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.