“You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.”

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Be a light unto oneself,

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.

My heart is full of love but please don’t get in my way.

I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I’m very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

I love the Seahawks because of Russell [Wilson] and I think that I’m going to probably go for them!

Love is love! People should be able to do whatever makes them happy!

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process, I forgot that I was special too.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.