“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”

“When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.”

“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

“There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”

“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”