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.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
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.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.
