Join the dance.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
In this life you have to learn to get up because the road is full of stones.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.
You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Every loss of life is terrible.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.
