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.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

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

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 'you' who you think you are does not exist.