When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

What is love?”; “The total absence of fear,” said the Master; “What is it we fear?”; “Love,” said the Master.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.

As one man said, “I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it.” That’s what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you...

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to...

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you...

The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause – for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are...

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you’re ready to listen and if you’re ready to be challenged, there’s one thing that you can do, but...

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet’s greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his...

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man’s action, some say they admired his faith.Faith?” said the Master.He had the courage of his...

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically everydoctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for thesethings, which were originally intended as pointers, were nowbeing taken as descriptions.He loved to quote the Eastern...