And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.