All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...

If you think you stink, you probably do.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.