Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

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.

It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

God: personified incomprehensibility.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.