A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.