In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments. - Anthony de Mello

The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and those who don't.

Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.

The Master once referred to the Hindu notion that all creation is "leela" — God's play — and the universe is his playground. The aim of spirituality, he claimed, is to make all life play. This seemed too frivolous for a puritanical visitor. "Is their no room then for work?" "Of course there is. But work becomes spiritual only when it is transformed into play."