Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Religious nuts, atheists, theists, as too most scientists fail to "get" IT - the Ultimate Reality - because they seek it through ego.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.

I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to practice a lot.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!

I never try to avoid 'Ugly Betty' fans, as I love them.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.