To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

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.

Every Moment Offers Us ChoicesChoose wiselyBecause the Choices You Make, Make You

Language is the art of experience

Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.