The source of all light is in the eye.

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.

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.

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.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Be a person that radiates happiness with her every movement and enlightens every place she goes with her smile.

The more you die to self on daily basis, the more you enjoy life.

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.

Problems exist only in the human mind.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.