Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

Love will not be spurred to what it loathes