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.

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.

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.

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

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.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough...

Where once we fought for land and God, we now fought to avenge fallen comrades, themselves slaughtered in vengeance. Where could it end? Babes growing to men knowing only days of war.

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.

Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current