If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Each breath is transforming me into thine image.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you.