Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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.

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.

Power belongs in the hands of love, not memories.

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when I got to third or fourth grade - don't associate reading with fun.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.