What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

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.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Sometimes we punish our selves the most.

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

Don't throw the ball before you have it.