What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don’t know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and...

Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy.

To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.

truth,” not a collection of fine and polished answers emanating from grand buildings, expert acknowledgement and advanced academic degrees. What you are looking for is your Self, and what I provide here are some tools...

Your dreams will be your reality if you don’t fear them and have enough courage to act on them.

The secret of a successful life isn’t the success but happiness.

Clear Awareness is not a magical state to be attained by secret rituals, chants, pleading to some external source or emergence into astral planes, nor a status bestowed by a certified master. Nor is it...

The past has no power over the present moment.

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.

When you’re looking for me, I am hiding in your heart, just find me with your light.

Freud expressed the opinion—not quite in earnest, though, it seemed to me—that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, ‘What then is science,...

In life, as in knitting, don’t leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

We will go away and nothing will remain except what we shared and gave away with love.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as...

A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you’re hurt.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?

Kindness is the highest form of service to the humanity.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself...

To be a success, follow your obsessions obsessively.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, “Why is there so much suffering?”Suzuki Roshi replied, “No reason.

An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action.

A person is not a closed system, they can never be fully self-sufficient. We need each other because we cannot make everything ourselves. Everything was invented, but it was not done alone, so we should...

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist...

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is.

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

It takes many years to build good reputations, but it takes a few minutes for their destruction.

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what it itself produces according to its own design; that it must...

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a...

The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity....

Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.

Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the...

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

Have the imagination, create the vision, go with passion, and take the action; you will achieve all of your goals.

The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it’s all music.

Go according to your curiosity.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

There will be peace in the world when we will learn to understand that there are no you and me, there is only we in this world.