The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

Black implies white self implies other

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.