If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

A good human being can still be molded from bad clay

Everyone had their own responsibilities, duties and feeling, only you don't have yourself, when you are in love.

Secrecy was the problem

When people call you by names you don't want to hear, adorn yourself with those 'names'. They take you to places, which those people will not be able to even pronounce.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.