“Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.”

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

When you don’t want to be interesting, you are free.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

God can never be close. God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite. Therefore, God is our Reality.

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

The mind is like the wind. You’re trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.

Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme – to the cosmic unfolding.

If you wish to find Love, don’t look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.

They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people.

And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.

You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

You have always been able to manipulate my heart in such a way that even though I’m bleeding, I offer you band aids that are holding me together.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this – He tapped his chest, over his heart. ‘This is always true.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.