In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

Everybody prayed

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

The world is everything that is the case.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Never choose the easy path. Choose the one that has morals