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

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

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.

The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.

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

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.