Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Know yourself in order to be better not to criticize and judge yourself

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

Life is eternal. You are immortal. You never do die. You simply change form.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.