Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
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.
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.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
The object of the superior man is truth.
