The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

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.

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.