“Be a light unto oneself,”

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

What is to give light must endure burning.

I now say to myself, ‘I trust the process of life’ to remind me that even in the darkest hours there is still light and possibility.

I could not be more proud to be the Mother of my son. He is a ray of light in this world.

Holding others in their Light helps us all to rise.

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.