Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music,"

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.