Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

The lie is a condition of life.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.