The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.
Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault. Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Knowledge is power.
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.
All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.