You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt