The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

if you want to help others, your little self must go.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong but it will advance its allotted length.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous .