Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

She ignored his feverish, sweaty skin, his violent trembles, and she kissed him. As he passionately held her against him, the whole world disappeared. It was just him. It had always been him.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.

Nothing can keep you down at the bottom, if your thoughts and beliefs aren't keeping you down.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

Whatever you consistently think about and focus upon you move toward.