To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.