Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.

The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.

You always see the world, the way you are, not the way world is.

When one being gets into the mood of life he can bring millions to life. When one fellow gets into the suicidal mood, he can kill thousands along with him.

Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance.

One must know one's own secret.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.