When you cease to dream you cease to live.
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
You are the universe experiencing itself.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.