When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking a plunge on a fly-by-night stock issue.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Lead the least secretive life you can.

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.