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.
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
You are the universe experiencing itself.
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
By going out of your mind, you come to your senses
All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
The sound of the rain needs no translation.
You can't get wet from the word 'water.'
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
We see what we believe rather than what we see.
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.
Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.
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