There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

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.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

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

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

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.