People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

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.