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.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.

We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.

The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something.' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.