“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.

Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

Man made God in his own image.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

This, too, will pass.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.

The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.

I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

Don’t get disillusioned, no don’t expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain’t happened yet.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Forgiveness gives birth to freedom so forgive them and set yourself free from the delusion of their chains and from the agony in your reality.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.

There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.