It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

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.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories.McGough: Really? When?Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ...

What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

Philosophy gives life to life.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

One day the faithful will have it all!

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!