What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.