Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you’re giving it power.
Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don’t. It’s you who give this power to them.
The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
The only way to change is by changing your understanding.