Rudy Rucker Quotes

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

Make peace with what is.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

You have to make peace with life.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.