"We want to understand, not to experience. We want the good and not the bad. We expect right and shun wrong. Absorbed in our attempts to isolate ourselves in half a life, we miss all of life. "
"If you understand, things are just as they are.If you do not understand, things are just as they are."
"Do not seek to know the truth. Only cease to cherish your opinions. "
"We continue to seek the right answer while asking the wrong question. The answer we are seeking is in the experience we are avoiding."
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. "
"Our insistence on hearing the answer we expect keeps us from askng the questions we should. "
"Most people fret about losing this state or that state. They get caught up in what's not present anymore. That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what's important. What always is? What is there in bliss and in misery? Who you are is always present and is always the same. That which doesn't come and go is real. That is where Freedom is found. "
"We are so captivated by conditions outside us that we have forgotten that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. Turn around! Look within."