But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

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.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.