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.
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.