The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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.

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. – From 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great generous and true without it we are little false and mean.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures such a smile if the artful but know it is the greatest weapon a face can have.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.