Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.
Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.
The wake doesn't drive the ship
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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