When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.