The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.
Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it.
We’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I’m not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I’m going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I’m going to experience them as well.
Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.
Everything that gets born dies.
What’s wrong with being number two?
It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.
What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
I’d always been interested in psychology.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family.
All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too – even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.