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

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.