The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.