You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.