Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.