We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

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.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.