When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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.
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.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
