The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.

Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.