But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.