Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don’t grab hold of the water when you swim, if you go stiff and tight in the water you sink. You have to relax.
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it.
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 that it is play.
This is it. What we are seeking is, if we are not totally blind already here.
There are times when men’s passions are much more trustworthy than their principles.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
The future is a concept – it doesn’t exist! There is no such thing as tomorrow! There never will be because time is always now.
