If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Duality is always secretly unity.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything—including "my" thoughts and actions—were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.