By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

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.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

I don’t have a mind to mindI only have a heartthat loves and cares

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.