This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

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.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

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

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

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.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.