I know that things can’t stay the same, that change is the whole of the law: but that not just the human world but the earth and the weather and life itself could be different at the end of a single lifetime from how it was at the beginning . . . you feel that the world, the earth, can die along with you. Can it? How can I believe that all around me is ruination unless I believe it was once as it should be, and I was alive then to see it? And how am I to know that this is so?

You see, we find comfort in telling ourselves that the world could not exist without us, that it exists only inasmuch as we ourselves exist, inasmuch as we can represent it to ourselves. Death, infinite space, galaxies, all this is frightening, exactly because it transcends the limits of our perception.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

Once you can say with confidence born from direct experience, “I am the world, the world is myself,” you are free from desire and fear on one hand and become totally responsible for the world on the other.

We had become what the world outside had made us; we had to live in the world as it existed.

I am my world.

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Why, yes, the mo­ment you’re born, your death comes in­to the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.

The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance.

You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.

the world is the mirror of myself dying.

Each of us carries a unique world within our hearts.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.