A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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.

To worry is to wear yourself out.

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives

Death is the inventor of God.

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.