Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

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.

You can have anything you need in life, the only price you have to pay is for you to exchange your life for greatness and greatness will deliver that thing you need to you.

She was so wound up that she reacted before she thought twice about it and stabbed him. "Damnit" he said between clenched teeth. His fingers tightyened around her wrist. "Stop doing that.

I still would have been in love with you and wanted a life with you, because of who you are. Not because of the things you did for me.

My envy's not dangerous

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

My whole thing is just being a part of good music.

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.