Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do.

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed.

Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

I expect to win out there.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.