I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.

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.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.