Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.