I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.