This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.

You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.

The problem with Fate is that its own purpose is often hidden in the path of the journeyed, whether they realized it or not.

Don’t give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I’m a vindictive Jew!” he’d bellow.

Follow your dreams, your passions - your obsessions. Persistence will always turn failure into success.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited - everything. A few people can be like that.