“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.

Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.

If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

When you want to do the thing that nobody did till now, once this desire comes from your heart, then you don’t have to do anything, that desire will do anything by using your body.