In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

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

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.