Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

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

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.