Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.

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.

As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

Hope is the light through which we see the future.

The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

I’m definitely a feminist & proud of it.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.