Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

Why is everyone here so happy except me? Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere, said the Master. Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

Is there life before death? -- that is the question!

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.