The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn...

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.

Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American...

Look in a mirror and one thing’s sure; what we see is not who we are.

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ”I’ve got responsibilities.”

Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

,Tienes idea de cuántas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lográramos la primera idea de que hay más en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? ¡Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil!...

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.

There’s always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before,...

don’t you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Os livros são escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que não nos libertam até serem escritas e, até mesmo então, a escrita é o último recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para...

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the...

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents’ property or theirs to control.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us...

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed…It feels an impulsion…this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the...

Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing:The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.The original sin is to limit the Is. Don’t.

A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for...