For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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 best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

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