The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.