Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

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.

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

I want a girl who doesn't know that she's beautiful, so i have an excuse to let her know all the time