Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

Take every opportunity to serve others, both in private and in public.

In the presence of one firmly established in non violence, all hostilities cease.

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

It is impossible to imagine our own death, and whenever we attempt to do so, we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”

“Everyone gets to be special without doing anything special. Why? Because it’s easy to get food and there’s nothing dangerous on the horizon. So we look for problems.”

“Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

As you are, you see everything else.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

True words aren’t eloquent; eloquent words aren’t true. Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.

It all begins when we say, “I.” Everything that follows is illusion.

There is a fountain inside you. Don’t walk around with an empty bucket.

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

All things that have flowered return to their root. This returning to the root has a name: Quiet.

“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. It is not good either to forget the questions that philosophy asks, or to persuade ourselves that we have found indubitable answers to them. To teach how to…

If you like things easy, you’ll have difficulties; if you like problems, you’ll succeed.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you live in the wisdom of the Self.

“Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others… reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul.”

“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”