Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

The menu is not the meal.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.