A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

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.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

What can't be cured must be endured.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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.