“Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.”

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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.