The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

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.

And in the morning rising up a great while before day he went out and departed into a solitary place and there prayed.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at it again.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself