Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The lie is a condition of life.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
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.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
All great achievements require time.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Time wounds all heels.