If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?