I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.