You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Resist much. Obey little.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

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

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

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.

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

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

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.