We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

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