The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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.

Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

I believe in having a private life.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.