Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".