Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by the degree of presence.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.