Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.