All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you.

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

They sell pot named after me in the dispensaries. And I'm not even a pot guy. I was so honored.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.