“In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.”

Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the ‘I’-self.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don’t identify with anything. Be completely empty – no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created ‘spiritual’ self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That’s it!

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego’s projections, which are rarely the truth.

Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.

Let the mind come as it wants; just you don’t go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don’t buy.

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.

Be true to Love. Do not betray Her. Then, on the day that the forest of the mind bursts into flames, you will not run. You will remain silent and still; for this is when Love bears Her sweetest fruit: untouched Presence.

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home.

Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up.

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.

Water is my drink.

You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don’t drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren’t speaking and I said I’ll take that drink.

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.