Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.

Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.