Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.