55 Quotes by Steve Hagen

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.

Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.

There’s nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.