“That which is easy is bad for your inner life.”

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

Life is real only then, when “I am”.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

Only super-efforts count.

Believe nothing, not even yourself.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don’t get that laugh, there’s something wrong.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it’s one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they’re going to want something from me I can’t give, or they’re going to hurt me.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he’s written that can’t be read aloud easily.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.

Sex is too easy for women to get, and too hard for men. I mean, honestly, for a man to walk into someplace and have every woman ready to take him home, he’d have to rule the world. A woman would have to do her hair.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.