No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.