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.

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.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us.

C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic?

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

Risk is not a dirty word.