Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.

Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.