There is a joy in the actual taste of vanilla ice cream that does not come from knowing the chemical formula of vanilla. There is a joy, an inherent aliveness in the body that you can experience if you pay attention to your body. But if you live up in your head, in your words all the time, you don't notice it.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Don't go for happiness, go for truth!

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.

If you don't have a goal, any road will do.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.