“As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.”

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

All who have come to me must have enema each day.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

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.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.