The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.