If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Kind of just existed from day to day, on weird plateau of feeling nothingness.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.