Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.

Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.

Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!

One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.

Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.

This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?

Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.