Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

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.

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

I've seen Jaws [movie], like, 800 times. And I love it.