Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Religion is always falling apart.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by some kind of cosmic lawgiver.

The mind's the standard of the man.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

The source of all light is in the eye.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.