That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.

It helps to even look in the mirror - and it sounds so cheesy - but if you just look in the mirror and say, 'You are beautiful,' and 'You are worthy,' those things really help you.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.