That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

He thought to himself, I’ll never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.

Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.