Join the dance.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
The menu is not the meal.
You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.
I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.
History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
If women didnt exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Imitate, assimilate and innovate.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Silence is so accurate.
I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.
