The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.