When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool—shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child—teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep—wake him. But he who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man—follow him.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be…

Big heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

There’s no such thing as a mistake, just a creative approach. That’s how I get through life.

You do not notice changes in what is before you.

“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so, too.

The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but “the true saint” goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and…

Take one step away from yourself—and behold—the path!

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone—and finding that that’s okay with them.

If someone asks about the mind of this monk, say it is no more than a passage of wind in the vast sky.

This play… is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.

There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imagination, intelligence, and natural common sense, and which goes on all the time, consciously or unconsciously like the heartbeat. There is also the thinking process by which we break into the inner life and capture answers and evidence…

One of the lovely things about being a human is that we are called in each moment to bring ourselves to birth. Part of the difficulty of our times is that we have reduced the magnificent adventure of being a human being to endless, wearisome projects of self improvement and self analysis according to the…

Wherever in any country the whole people feel the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moment against the background of eternity.

Not “I don’t care” but “I don’t mind.”

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

The marketplace does only one thing—it puts a price on everything.

Don’t forget that everything will be forgotten.