You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

I can't have a daily routine. I feel really overwhelmed a lot of the time. I don't take much comfort in routine, but if I don't start, I could really get eaten alive by my industry.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

I can't stop [Donald Trump] from doing what he wants to do.

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.