Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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 wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

Honestly I feel comfortable starting and relieving. I've done both a lot. I really don't have a preference except which one gets me to the big leagues and allows me to excel the most.