Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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.

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Appearances often are deceiving.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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 we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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