Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

Do what you have to do
Resolutely, with all your heart.
The traveller who hesitates
Only raises dust on the road.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.