We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be