I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Life should be lived to the point of tears.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.