We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

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.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Imagination is an endless possibility.

Never. I promise you this: they will stay together. They will be safe. My children will be accompanying them to the same home.

He cried, almost entire night. He cried alone in his small shed. That was only game that he could play without needing another person to participate.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

When somebody tells you he or she is leading something, a fair question is, "What is your vision?"

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.