Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.

I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.