You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn’t contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.
We usually don’t look. We overlook.
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
You are the universe experiencing itself.
If you can’t meditate in a boiler room, you can’t meditate.