If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
What do you feel when you look out at the galaxies where the sky is clear? You see this colossal affair that you are involved in. It makes a lot of people feel very small, but it shouldn't. It should make you feel as big as it is, because it is all inseparably connected with what you call you.
Pacificity is the root of all action.
We create trouble by doing good for other people. We wage wars for people's benefit and educate the poor for their benefit so they desire more things which they can't afford. Philosophy of the Tao
It is not a journey. It is NOW!
Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.
Man is the only creature who hordes his dead
Time is an artificial concept
All religious beliefs are merely fantasies designed to prevent our own mortality
The highest religion is non-religion
All religious beliefs are obstacles to our own transcendence as every form of belief is an attempt to cling
Our concept of time is the hairline second hand of a watch. We believe that the hairline is now
The now is eternal. Time is the eternal now
Drift like a cloud and flow like the river. All we have to lose is our concept of who we believe we are
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive 'Happening,' in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shinning far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.