“Human desire tends to be insatiable.”

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

We confuse money with actual wealth.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Belief clings, but faith lets go.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.

Only doubtful truths need defense.

I’ll hand deliver your pressure whenever you desire my touch

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord’s work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

Secrets of the darkness live within your desires I want to be them for you.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

I desire very little, but the things I do consume me.