We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

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.

We are going home (we are Home, already and always). Home on this earth is being all levels of our awareness or consciousness in our own unique fashion. (138)

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.

Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Sooner or later we'll be looking back on everything and we'll laugh about it like we knew what all was happening

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.