Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
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.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
The object of the superior man is truth.
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.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
