It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.

Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand.

Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life.

Today’s experience prepares you for better tomorrow.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

I didn't know a damn thing about style.

I put the hamburger on the assembly line.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.