Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.

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

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

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