When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Practice peace, change your world.

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

You find freedom inside - nowhere else. In the heart of every being is that one space which is free, which is filled with Peace, and which is full of Love.

If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.

When you do choose to speak, " she told me, "speak truths.

Sometimes I hear the echo of your voice in an empty hall and it reminds me that you're gone.

We are confusing making “progress” with eradicating the larger problem.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

Heaven is a place nearby, so there's no need to say goodbye.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.