All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon 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. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever....

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.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

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.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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.

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.