I owe my solitude to other people.

For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.