There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.