When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.