You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.