Wisdom

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools that life uses to show us the way.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

The only journey is the one within.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.