If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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.

Have you no idea of progress, of development?""I have seen them both in an egg, " said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.