All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

The world seems to have certain criteria with which it judges the value of people.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently

Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.