Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.