The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.