Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.