If you see that you are a bundle of memories and words, the restless monkey comes to an end.

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.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

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

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

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.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.

Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

Life is a promise; fulfill it.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.