“The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent, by the most direct and practical method available.”
“Don’t ask if your dreams are crazy. Ask if they are crazy enough.”
“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
“The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
“You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.“
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions; that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”
“We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.”
“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.“