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.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

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

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.