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

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.