We fall in love with people and possessions only to be tortured by anxiety for them. - Alan Watts

the most basic Buddhist stance: sober examination of what lies before you, leaving aside all assumptions.

If the mind is the directive force behind action, the mind and its vision of life must be healed before action can be anything but conflict.

Something must therefore be said about the healed vision of life which comes with full awareness, for it involves a deep transformation of our view of the world. As well as words can describe it, this transformation consists in knowing and feeling that the world is an organic unity.

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.