A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Why waste time for a love partner, while you've already wasted a lot of time for your self.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

What gets celebrated gets replicated.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

Ultra high speed slow mo.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.