Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less