Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed in the eye with a carrot.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.