Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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.

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.