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.

I thought I had nothing to be grateful for today, but then the universe became quiet a moment so I could hear my heart beat to the rhythm of my life.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

I changed the course of my disease with the power of my mind.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Their throats were bare for God.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

Do you think me horselike, my lord?" Realizing the threat to his personage, Blackmoor wiped the smile from his face and replied, "Not at all. I said I think you charming." "A fine start.

[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!

It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.