Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit, it can never bring you ulimate happiness or peace. Life requires more that knowledge; it requires intense feeling and constant energy. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive.

If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.