We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

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.

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'