Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.

I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

There's nothing political about American literature.

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!