On Love:
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
On Life:
We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
On God:
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
On Religion:
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.