Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

To go faster you must slow down.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.