There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.