For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

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

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.