It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

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

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.