“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.

Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?

We are born as children of ignorance, on a journey to be a child of awareness.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

You make me feel the way Christmas did when I was a kid, I’d close my eyes look to the skies and magic became real.

Kids should speak to each other. They’re horrid to each other online, they bully each other – they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It’s too much, too young.

We must believe the things We teach our children

Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I’d get locked in a grocery store.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.