Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Wisdom begins at the end.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.