That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

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.

Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

I don't like to take my clothes off.

I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.