Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.