The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them, watching how Mom and Dad use them as weapons.

You weren't brought into this life to become someone else that was brought for a different purpose.

The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.