The world you think of is in your own mind.

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.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Break the lockup of thoughts and live free.

There are no trophies for the real victories in life.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

If you're smiling , you're happy out.

John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.