How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think will have MAD stamped across it.

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.