The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

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.

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

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

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.