Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Problems exist only in the human mind.

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

There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

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 no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

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.

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.