As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

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.

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.

Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.

Sometimes daughter who is loved by her father very much and loving her father very much, she is getting hurt by her lover very much.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.