What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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