Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

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.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

"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."

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.