Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

Experience is the opposite of education.

All you do out of selfish reasons is a waste

Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.