But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

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.

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.