It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.