To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

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.

Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.

Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.