Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

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

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

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