Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

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

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.