Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

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.

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

Let me guess, Velkan wants to see me? (Esperetta) No. The only thing His Highness would like to see in regards to you, Princess, is your disembowelment. (Raluca)

I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

I define success by personal growth; if you don’t continue to grow, you can’t continue to succeed.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.