The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.