“Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.”

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

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.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized, or because you acknowledged the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace.

That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.