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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.
It’s time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
Nirvana is where you are, provided you don’t object to it.