Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

The Chinese are the greatest that ever came about, they are the greatest currency manipulators ever.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.