“The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

The present is always changing the past.

The menu is not the meal.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.

I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited.

A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.

Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.

I make sure to stop by in every city they exist to attend to my sweet tooth.