There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart’s desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being.

The highest religion of human is the identity for which he is living rest is either one of the path or unnecessary fight.

But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!

There is no middle ground for the selfless and the selfish.

They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.

I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

Whenever I think of Milwaukee, I think of the American League. Hmm, Boston, Atlanta, weren't they the Browns, too?

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.