The wake doesn't drive the ship

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.

Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly passion.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.