To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.

The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible.

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

Through great input you get great output.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.