“All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!”

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

You can’t win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

For someone who doesn’t have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.