To display His eternal attributes / In their inexhaustible variety, / The Lord made the green fields / of time and space.

Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

There is nothing insignificant anywhere.

Forget injuries, never forget kindness.

All that we are is a result of what we have thought.

What is faith if it is not translated into action.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.

You can’t know, you can only believe—or not.

There comes a time in the seeker’s life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Our thought must be clear and ordered. When this is done, we shall see, to our surprise, that it has become creative.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

He who wants to be valued will go unnoticed.

Do everything in the name of God and nothing will affect you.

It is a fault to cling to a fault.

The best way to get approval is to not need it. This is equally true in art and business. And love. And sex. And just about everything else worth having.

Gain, loss, truth, falsehood: I ask you, please abandon them.

To be nobody but yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.

You cannot fight darkness. You have to light up, and the darkness will disappear.

The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day to day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful… the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

Enjoy life. It’s later than you think.

A genius is someone who discovers that the stone that falls and the moon that doesn’t fall represent one and the same phenomenon.

Where is the real? All appearances are deceitful, the visible surface deceptive. I look at my hand … it is nerves, muscles, bones. Let us go deeper: it is molecules and acids. Further still: it is an impalpable waltz of electrons and neutrons. Further still: an immaterial nebula. Who can prove that my hand exists?

The time will come / when, with elation, / you will greet yourself arriving / at your own door, in your own mirror / and each will smile at the other’s welcome, / and say, sit here. Eat.