Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are.

We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.

Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone . . . waiting for something I could never give you.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

An ant has no quarrel with a boot.