I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.