11 quotes
"Trying to manage things, trying to force things to conform to your will only makes for more frustration."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
"The ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself."
"The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other."
"No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle."
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."
"We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."