Do you want to be happy?Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself.

Deepen your faith in yourself.Nothing will be ableTo frighten or weaken you.

Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent LightMy heart dives.Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened wide.

True inner joy is self-created.It does not depend on outer circumstances.A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy.This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself.Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfullyAnd more self-givingly.

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

If we feel secureIn the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidenceIs nothing short ofComplete satisfaction.

To make the fastest progress, Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureAs parallel experience riversLeading to the sea Of progress-delight.

In between your failure-treeAnd your triumph-tree, The tree that is growingIs known as your patience-tree.

Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

You do not know a situation until you experience .

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.