Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

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.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

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.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.