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.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.