Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.

He trusts her.She nodded andseemed happy to betrusted at last.- Not First Love

All of us are products of our childhood.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.