When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

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.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

There are no have-to's, just choices

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.