Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

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.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

What is the point of living forever if you are stuck on a permanent diet of leaves and twigs?

Self acceptance is a key factor in life.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.