Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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 menu is not the meal.