To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.