To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

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.

Since the world is ending, ” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.