But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.

There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.