Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.

Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

The greatest life is to share, to sacrifice and to serve.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.