We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.