No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. 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.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

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.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever…

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.

Then came the time to let the world, into my world.

One with great successes has had equally great hardships.

Your dreams will come true, but only when they’re supposed to and not a moment before.

There may be open doors before me, but I’m always drawn to the one that’s locked.

Your greatest enemies are those who prevent you from learning all there is to know and more.

Why wait for tomorrow when today is holding out her hand?

Nothing is more dangerous than contentment without progression.

To unlock the greatest mysteries we must accept that we are nothing and all that we do know is relative to the size of The Earth in the cosmoses

Just remember, who you are, and always take that with you, wherever you do go.

You must first be nothing to become something.

I’d rather be the fool than the wise man. That way. I’ll be underestimated and they won’t see me coming.

We only talk of what we know, so as to know of little is to talk of little.

Shake the hands of those you hate, and you will thank me.

I wish to never stop working on the things I love.

I shall become All that I know I was meant to be.

I believe my biggest fear is to live a life of normality.

I have fallen in love with The Cosmos and all the possibilities it does hold.

Damned to continued disappointment are they who dream only of their own happiness over that of others.

My faith is strongest when the night sky is clear.