The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.