If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

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.

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich.

We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.