The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

Your life isn't behind you

Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.