The night doesn't say to itself, 'Here comes a shooting star to interrupt my peace!'

Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

All beauty contains darkness.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.