You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

How can there be suffering when there is love?

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.