Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people .

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.

The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.