Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

Ease happens when you have the feeling of what you want inside of you.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe