If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.