If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
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.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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.