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

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.