And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

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.

If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

Let us live without hate among those who hate

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.