Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

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.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.