“The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.”

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.

What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.

There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.