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

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.