There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.