But we must not suffer over the suffering.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

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.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.