Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

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.

My thoughts became demons and made my mind evil.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

We Poles are and will remain convinced Europeans. For us, Europe is a community of the diversity of nations. No mishmash.

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.

He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.