“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don’t speculate, simply look at what is there.

You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.

I’ve had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

I’ve never compromised who I am not ever. If I’ve gotten anywhere in my life it’s been on my own merits.

If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?