Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.