When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

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

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.