They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

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.

Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you.

For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.

Understanding that quitting is never an option, leaves winning as the only option.

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.