To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

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

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.