Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

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.

Live each day as if it were the first day of marriage and the last day of vacation.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

You owe others a happy disposition

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.