The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

This moment holds everything I could ever want to say to him and everything I could ever want to hear back.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants.