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.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

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.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.