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

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

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

The lie is a condition of life.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

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.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.