Love springs from awareness.

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.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

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.

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