As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
My experience is that it’s precisely the ones who don’t know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
Live your life as you see fit. That’s not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all – they are attempting nothing new.
People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg.
All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.
Is there life before death? – that is the question!
My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth .
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.