You Keep Insisting, I Feel

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.

Spirituality Means Waking Up. Most People, Even Though They Don't Know It, Are Asleep. They're Born Asleep, They Live Asleep, They Marry In Their Sleep, They Breed Children In Their Sleep, They Die In Their Sleep Without Ever Waking Up. They Never Understand The Loveliness And The Beauty Of This Thing That We Call Human Existence.

A Good Teacher Offers Practice, A Bad One Offers Theories.

These Things Will Destroy The Human Race: Politics Without Principle, Progress Without Compassion, Wealth Without Work, Learning Without Silence, Religion Without Fearlessness And Worship Without Awareness.

A Writer Arrived At The Monastery To Write A Book About The Master. "people Say You Are A Genius . Are You?" He Asked. "you Might Say So." Said The Master, None Too Modestly. "and What Makes One A Genius?" "the Ability To Recognize." "recognize What?" "the Butterfly In A Caterpillar: The Eagle In An Egg; The Saint In A Selfish Human Being.