What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

You'll regret that, Bourkan.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity

Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

Love is a labyrinth of misunderstandings whose way out doesn’t exist.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.