“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.”

Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

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

Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.

Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme – to the cosmic unfolding.

If you wish to find Love, don’t look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that.

You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow!

Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.

Focus your mind on ‘I Am’, which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully ‘Here’ and fully ‘Now’. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.

When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Let me lay in the arms of my heart and put my thoughts to sleep for my heart whispers wisdom, my mind could never speak.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

We’re never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don’t mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

A mind at peace does not engender wars.