Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
The only real laughter comes from despair.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
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.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
I think, therefore I am.