Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Two hearts in love need no words.

I have never been happier or healthier than I am right now.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.