Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

You can't do it better without teamwork.

Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.