No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.