People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

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

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

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

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.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."