We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.