If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

so, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a precipice, it doesn't do you any good to hang onto a rock that's falling with you. see? but everything is doing that. and so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. don't do it. and then you'll be able to do something interesting with the free energy.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.