When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

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.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

Sometimes it's our darkest moments that make us shine.

Last night, in silent hours - where the gentle sea touched our skin - I have found the love of your thinking.

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

Obviously it's fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

The truth of truths is love.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.