Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

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.

Instinct's aware of reflex when mind ain't yet.

Love is not a landmine but a sinkhole.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.