The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

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 life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.