The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.