“When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.”

In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.

When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.

Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

A bottle of wine was good company.

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.

The company of the saints helps us to recognize that God never abandons us, so that we can live and bear witness to hope on this earth.

The greed of drug companies is out of control and the cost is human lives.

If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.