Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

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.

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

Fear, doubt, and lack are things we must talk about to emerge as associations that thrive for years to come.

Inertia is the death of creativity

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

The day will bring some lovely thing.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

Who is the public now that it has changed color?

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.