Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.