This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.