We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Sunglasses are best invention of this worldThey hide eyes, which speak more then words

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.

Act, and God will act.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.