Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

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

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.