To acquire happiness you don’t have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired.

this is exactly what your society did to you when you were born. You were not allowed to enjoy the solid, nutritious food of life—namely, work, play, fun, laughter, the company of people, the pleasures of the senses and the mind. You were given a taste for the drug called approval, appreciation, attention.

“A saint is one until he or she knows it.”

“God,” whatever that is, is there. It’s all there. The poor little fish in the ocean says, “Excuse me, I’m looking for the ocean. Can you tell me where I can find it?” Pathetic, isn’t it? If we would just open our eyes and see, then we would understand.

When you’re ready to lose your life, you live it. But if you’re protecting your life, you’re dead.

The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. The only tragedy there is in the world is unwakefulness and unawareness. From them comes fear, and from fear comes everything else, but death is not a tragedy at all. Dying is wonderful; it’s only horrible to people who have never understood life.

When you go through life with preferences but don’t let your happiness depend on any one of them, then you’re awake.

one cannot do evil in awareness. But one can do evil in knowledge or information, when you know something is bad.

How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it but by understanding it. In understanding, it disappears.