The sense of difference is the cause of all sorrows.

When we know how to be content, we never want for anything.

You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

Wherever you are, you must be able to tune yourself with God within.

In silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.

The contented man who possesses nothing owns the world.

When a man tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner Self.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

The end to be sought is human happiness combined with full mental and moral growth.

When one is so absolutely relaxed that there is no tension in the body or in the mind, then suddenly there is an opening of the heart. Only in total relaxation does the heart open, it becomes a flower.

In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. / We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can…

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Beginning is not only a kind of action, it is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

Freedom is always a question of degree rather than an absolute good that we do or do not possess.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is… At last, to love it for what it is.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.

The more I read, the more I meditate, and the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

“Life is like a sewer—what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” It’s always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

All wisdom can be stated in two lines: / What is done for you—allow it to be done. / What you must do yourself—make sure you do it.

Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self knowledge hasn’t begun.

Go—not knowing where; bring—not knowing what; the path is long, the way unknown.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists, is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s own back yard. This lesson can be easily lost. To be looking…

To the good listener a word is enough.