Enlightenment Is: Absolute Cooperation With The Inevitable.

What You Are Aware Of You Are In Control Of; What You Are Not Aware Of Is In Control Of You.

How Sad If We Pass Through Life And Never See It With The Eyes Of A Child.

A Religious Belief Is Not A Statement About Reality, But A Hint, A Clue About Something That Is A Mystery, Beyond The Grasp Of Human Thought. In Short, A Religious Belief Is Only A Finger Pointing To The Moon. Some Religious People Never Get Beyond The Study Of The Finger. Others Are Engaged In Sucking It. Others Yet Use The Finger To Gouge Their Eyes Out. These Are The Bigots Whom Religion Has Made Blind. Rare Indeed Is The Religionist Who Is Sufficiently Detached From The Finger To See What It Is Indicating - These Are Those Who, Having Gone Beyond Belief, Are Taken For Blasphemers.

The Master Persistently Warned Against The Attempt To Encompass Reality In A Concept Or A Name. A Scholar In Mysticism Once Asked, "when You Speak Of Being, Sir, Is It Eternal, Transcendent Being You Speak Of, Or Transient, Contingent Being?" The Master Closed His Eyes In Thought. Then He Opened Them, Put On His Most Disarming Expression, And Said, "yes!"

People Kill For Money Or For Power. But The Most Ruthless Murderers Are Those Who Kill For Their Ideas.