I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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.

For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.