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

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

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

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg