Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.