People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

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

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

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

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.