You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The menu is not the meal.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

I have gained this by philosophy I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai d'couvert en moi un invincible

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?

All knowledge is worth having.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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.

Anyway because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis at any time of night or day.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

There are no ordinary moments.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Take it easy, but take it.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Suffering, she said. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.