Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

The world is its own magic.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.