After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Don’t you just love meeting new people in new places? It means I can be whoever I want to be. And guess what, sweet’eart? Today…I choose to be your worst nightmare.

realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing?

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.

Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand