The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
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.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
