You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

You are the universe experiencing itself.