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.
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.
Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
Said the master: “Where does your question come from?”
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
Said the monk: “All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars – where do they come from?” Said the master: “Where does your question come from?”