You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

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.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Nadua was stunned by his gentleness

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.