The number of seconds the average person spends in the present moment in a year does not amount to even a single day.
Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought to another.
Most people’s minds are almost always too busy for them to feel their skins being caressed by the wind or the sun.
If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.
The great suffering caused by lack of freedom of thought is nothing compared to that caused by lack of freedom from thought.
The mind is a drama queen that gets too embarrassed to continue acting up, after only a few seconds of getting our undivided attention.
That the past and the future are just ideas is proven by the undeniable fact that not being in the present moment is a mental phenomenon.
Planning for, or worrying about, a particular portion of the future does not increase your chances of reaching it.
Masochism is an unforgettable reminder of the spiritual fact that every experience, even pain or suffering, can be enjoyed.
We envy toddlers the most for pretty much always living fully in the present moment, and for having the courage to laugh for absolutely no reason.
Meditation eventually reveals our ability of getting pleasure from giving our undivided attention to our pain.
Our inability or unwillingness to leave life alone often leaves us with the desire to leave life with those who are dying.
A writer does not come up with ideas, questions, opinions, or stories. They come, and he or she writes them down.
The greatest contribution that can ever be made to the human race has already been made through the invention of meditation.
To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing but the worst.
There are countless trillions of ways life could be happening, but not a single way life should be happening.
The overwhelming joy the artist gets from bringing art into existence, the mystic gets from existence.
A highly developed intellect makes one way more capable of becoming, but way less likely to become, spiritually awakened.
Most people use their minds to solve problems way less often than they use their minds to create problems.
The environment that most influences our health and our chances of attaining wealth is the one between our ears.
You can be angry that someone did not flush the toilet, or be glad that they have relieved themselves into it.
Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.
Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.
It takes an enormous amount of self-confidence to tell others about your struggles while you are still struggling.
We sometimes allow someone because of their confidence and our uncertainty to correct us where we are right, and they are wrong.
There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.
It is conducive to serenity to see the vast majority of people as the children they are spiritually and intellectually.
We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.
All deaf people would kill for an opportunity to spend the entire day listening to sober adults whine.
The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.
Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.
The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.
Some people would kill for the results or situations because of which some people have killed themselves.
It is impossible to count your blessings while you are counting the things with which you need or want to be blessed.
There are often many people dying from thirst while many people are running for dear life away from the rain.
Because our minds are problem solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.
We are almost always way more grateful to be alive, when we are laughing, than we occasionally are, when we are praying.
You need to be blessed with things such as sanity to realize that you have been cursed with things such as poverty and disability.
It is comforting, after finding out that your loved one has just drowned, to estimate the number of times their life was saved by water.
Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of success or wealth.
All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.
Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.
Oftentimes someone leaves their partner who is comparable to the sun for someone else who is comparable to a spark.
12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.
When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
A promotion usually increases the amount of money we can spend on our loved ones, but decreases the amount of time we can spend with our loved ones.
Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.
Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.
Every now and then, someone blames their not being physically strong for their not being able to think of a solution.
He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.
Expecting defeat more than halves the potency of our effort, and more than quadruples that of our opponent’s effort.
Life has always been and will always be beautiful, regardless of how some or even all people have looked, are looking, or will look at it.
Depression is usually the result of focusing on a negative thought or situation way more often and for way longer than usual.
Life is millions of billions of trillions of transformations of something into some things, or another thing; never into nothing.
Expecting difficulties is wise, if that usually gives you the strength to continue, and foolish, if that usually takes away the courage to begin.
An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
I do not mind someone talking to me, as long as they do not mind me not listening or talking to them.
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.
Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.
We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.
Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.
To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.
The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.
We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.
