When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.

The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness is known by itself

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.

Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.

We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.

Mankind’s assignment is to extend the kingdom of love throughout the earth

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.