The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Look for competence not claims.
The important thing is not to know who “I” is or what “I” is. You’ll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, “It is you who make your destiny.” “But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?” “Being born a woman isn’t destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it.”
Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you’re ready to listen and if you’re ready to be challenged, there’s one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It’s called self-observation.
Doesn’t everyone see Reality as it is?
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.
If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.