Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

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.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, " he thought as he lay down

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe.

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.