Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.