Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.