God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.