But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

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.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

Continuous Improvement is the way which always heads towards the Perfection.

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.

As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.