Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

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.

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.