Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world.

Do people have confidence? I think the real confidence you need is the confidence in your outlook, and I think people are pretty confident it is a low-growth world.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)