When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

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.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

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

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.