“Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.”

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.

People can’t be talked out of illusions.

It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

You’ve got to pay attention to what you’re attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you’re gonna be attracted to things that are going to be attracted to you, but it literally moves into physical reality with and through you and it does that by law.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

The kind of energy I attract is very calm.

You attract the predominant thoughts that you’re holding in your awareness.

Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.

He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.