When the ordinary person realizes, he is a sage. When a sage understands, he is an ordinary man.

A time comes when you need to clean house. No, you need to go even further. You need to burn the house down with yourself inside it. Then you must walk from the fire and say, I have no name.

When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100 percent of the time.

There are many ways to meditate. Whatever opens us, softens the heart, makes us alive to this human world and helps us to bear it is our path.

Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.

A bird gets up every morning and sings its song. It does not wait to hear what other birds are singing, nor does it look to see if another bird is getting more notice. It knows its song innately and sings. This is nature: knowing your song.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non—peace, your non—peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

Take your good fortune and lift your life to its highest calling. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas.

None of the truest things in life—like love or faith—was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.

Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Not one of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for yourself.

Detach yourself from those things which are not permanent, and rest in that which is always permanent.

Your true self is perfect, complete and unchanging.

The spiritual process is like a journey—constant change. Always new terrain.

You must first of all free yourself from the normal way in which you interpret facts.

God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.

Serenity means the serenity with which you hold your place.

Amass the wealth which has nothing to fear from kings or thieves, and which does not desert thee in death.

Selfishness in man is a beginning.

Be at one with your in-breath and your out-breath. That is the miracle that you can perform at any time.

The gift of truth excels all other gifts.

Strive for detachment, concentrate in silence, conform to the nature of things, be without ego. Then mankind will be at peace.

When your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

The wise man does not govern men from outside. First he changes himself and then his influence spreads.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

When you calm your mind and your senses, you become conscious of your always present inner Self.