When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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.
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.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Be curious, not judgmental.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
