The wake doesn't drive the ship

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

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.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.