“Did you ever watch a smoke ring and how it appears? That’s like our thoughts. They disappear in the same way.”

“The best way to do something is to do it without thought. That’s real concentration.”

“Who is playing this part anyway? That’s right, play it any way you want. That’s the way to play it.”

“Love is strange. It comes in different forms. All of them are from the same root, and that’s how your love grows - from that root.”

“You could lead your life as if the whole world were watching you on TV, or you could lead your life as if no one is watching you – same thing.”

“In a sense, all life is a prank. We are not who we appear to be and no one else is as they appear to be. So how can we handle that little mystery? This whole business about God – what’s that all about? No one knows anything about that either. So we have people who are not as they appear to be, telling us about something that they have no idea about. We really are on our own here to try and figure it out. That’s the real adventure of it. Some people are anxious to tell you what they know and have experienced. I’d rather hear from some people who admit to what they don’t know and haven’t experienced. They’re much more interesting.”

“Obsessing about things isn’t good for you. It’s a form of possessing things and at some level of awareness; we possess nothing. That’s how we get free of being possessed by our possessions.”