The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"