You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.