Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.

Its not the eyes, that makes the visualization of the external world possible, but its the perception out of the awareness field. Your eyes are the same, but you view two person differently.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?

There are a lot of times where people think I'm in things that I'm not in, because they think I'm Kumail Nanjiani.

An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.

I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.