Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.