Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

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 didn’t know I was looking for you, but I was, ” he whispered.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

My father was in the First World War.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

I wasn't the most popular girl in class, I had my friends, but I was comfortable with myself. There's always those most popular girls and I wasn't one of those.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.