this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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.