“This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.”

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

Don’t sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Time is a valuable thing. Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings. Watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away!

If you’re living your life in fear, then you’re just not living.