Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Think globally, act locally.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
