The menu is not the meal.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The source of all light is in the eye.

She said, I'm going to miss you when you when I wake up.Don't wake up, he answered.But he did.Kestrel, beside him on the grass, said. "Did I wake you? I didn't mean to.

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.