Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.