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

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

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.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.