Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

If you're expecting an upside in everything you do you might get extremely disappointed unless you also think about the consequences of a downside first.

I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace--'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

Now remember, they say if two people go together to visit the Taj Mahal, that means they will always be together. Are you ready for that? Guess I'm stuck with you then.