When you make a choice, you change the future.
This world is but a canvas for our imagination.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
The way to do is to be.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.