Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.