Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

For one who knows me, I am one with him; for one who wants to know me, I am very near to him; and for one who does not know me, I am a beggar before him.

It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.

In 'whichever direction' you may turn your gaze you will find One Eternal Indivisible Being manifested. Yet, it is not at all easy to detect this Presence, because He interpenetrates everything.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.

Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.

My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

Lions make leopards tame.