Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.