I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.