I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.