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

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.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

We confuse money with actual wealth.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

Florida wants to change the state’s motto to attract younger people. They’re thinking about: More than just a great place to die.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they’re afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

I’m very attracted to a girl’s eyes. I think you can tell a lot by a girl’s eyes

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I’m attracted to her in every way possible, but that’s not the answer. Because I’ve been attracted to other people, and I couldn’t stand ’em after a while.

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.