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

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.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.