Present moment awareness is essential to life long success.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

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

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.