I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but only in still water. Only that which is itself still can still the seekers of stillness… if water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe.

Love life more than the meaning of it.

Don’t sit and wait. Get out there. Feel life.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

All’s well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

Let us pretend in order to make the pretense real.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Through courage we do not reduce our fear, we go beyond it.

We begin to die the day we began to contract, to hate other races, and nothing can prevent our death, until we come back to life, to expansion.

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher.

Live neither in the entanglements of outer things, nor in ideas or feelings of emptiness. Be serene and at one with things and erroneous views will disappear by themselves.

The present moment is the only moment that is real.

Grace is not an invention, it is a fact of spiritual experience.

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us.

The secret of success lies not so much in abundance of thought as in our ability to follow one well chosen subject to the exclusion of all others.

The great spiritual leaders tell us that there is nothing terrible about death. It is just a change of condition. You pass from one stage to another.

The faith waiting in the heart of a seed promises a miracle of life which it cannot prove.

In each individual life lies the responsibility for the good and evil of the whole.

All you have to do is rest your mind in its natural openness. No special focus, no special effort, is required. And if for some reason you cannot rest your mind, you can simply observe whatever thoughts, feelings, or sensations come up, hang out for a couple of seconds, and then dissolve, and acknowledge, “Oh,…

All things exist within ourselves, and each instant includes the entire world.

The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress and moral development.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding, and leads you to freedom.

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, and—deep inside yourself—you’ll feel good no matter what.