"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

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

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.