And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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.

If you thought of it, don't be fooled into thinking it is a dumb Idea.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.