People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Dedicate your life to delivering people and teaching them the ways of Christ

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

'I don't know' is my favorite position.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

I would have liked to have worked with Carrie Preston. I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life.

you don't love me, you just love my doggystyle