Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
A man is literally what he thinks.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.