All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

I was just an okay person.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

The true artist can only labor con amore.