“The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.”

Who asks a king for a penny?

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.

You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don’t really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions – and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

A preposition is a word You mustn’t end a sentence with!

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it’s a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.