“The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.”

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.

There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

More often than not, we cater to the public perception.

In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero’s role.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.