Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.