A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Mais, dans la mort d’un homme, un monde inconnu meurt, et je me demandais quelles étaient les images qui sombraient en lui.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

We have three kinds of family 1.Those we are born to 2.Those who are born to us3.And those we let into our hearts ♥

I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

Islam is a dangerous religion.

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world