Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

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.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present