“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”

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 ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.

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

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.

There is no other reality than present reality.

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

The source of all light is in the eye.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

What is a business? It’s simply an idea that makes someone else’s life better.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.