Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.