In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

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.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

The truth, refutes the lie.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.