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

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.