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.'

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.