The source of the ego is God.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.