Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already 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.

Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.

Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.