Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.