Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

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.

He’s more myself than I am

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard