Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

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 only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.