You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.