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

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.