Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.