The brightest stars don’t necessarily give the most light.
There’s something much worse than being ignored-not being ignored.
One must resist the temptation to make oneself miserable.
In new surroundings, one grows new eyes.
The true poetic feeling is a feeling of boundless gratitude.
I like to think serious thoughts but I don’t like to take them seriously.
Where the signposts end, the trail begins.
The tree that stands so firm on land trembles in the water.
Enlightenment is simply the moment you realize how amazing it is to be alive.
A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.
There is music the moment you start listening.
Nothing else is needed to be a complete human being than to have been born a human being.
Life is nothing, if you feel nothing.
Forget culture. Forget religion. Forget nationality. All that superficial stuff. Dig deep. and you will find that you are just you, and I am just me.
Popes, prophets, mystics, buddhas are all just actors playing a role.
The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.
A heart grows flat and stale from too much thinking.
You don’t get to choose the things that attract or turn you on. They are written like Sanskrit in your blood.
There’s no law that says you have to be dissatisfied or disappointed with who you are.
Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.