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Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.
How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time
I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.
There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.
If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.
The only serious side-effect of # marijuana is that you might get arrested.
If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be