Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Words are only words

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.