As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.