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

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

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

We see what we believe rather than what we see.