An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom.

There is no illuminating light as powerful as that a person has got inside to guide him or her through the darkness encircling outside.

Never once, did Christ ever utter, "I came here to start a religion"Early Christians did not worship items, relics, wars, or governments.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.