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.

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

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.