The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

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.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

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.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.