You can easily guess that when a man has spent a month in Eldorado he cares to see nothing else in the world but Madame Cunegonde.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

You can break down the present into smaller and smaller increments, but between the instant of present experience and the instant you identify that instant as 'now', the moment has already passed. It is not longer now. It’s then.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

You can best achieve success at meditation by not pursuing success, and achieving this success may mean caring less about success

You can be totally entranced by the glow of something one minute, be willing to sacrifice everything to make it yours, but then a little time passes, or your perspective changes a bit, and all of a sudden you're shocked at how faded it appears.

You can be invincible if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

You can always fool yourself into seeing a decline if you compare rose-tinted images of the past with bleeding headlines of the present.”

You can achieve complete freedom; you can experience vastness. Genuine wakefulness is possible constantly.

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.

You call this progress, because you have motor cars and telephones and flying machines and a thousand potions to make you smell better? And people sleeping on the streets?

You build a mask and then grow into that mask... masks that hide our true selves... The process of training the mind peels off the masks... let go of rote behaviors... being defensive and uptight, lazy, irritable, or self-conscious... We can survive the death of impersonating ourselves, and of wearing masks. We will not just survive, but flourish.

You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

You believe I have offended heaven, and must suffer eternal fire: Will not that be sufficient?... If mine is a religious offense, leave it to religious punishments.

You begin to experience the simplicity of awareness,so although the sensorial hallucinations might continue, they don’t mean anything to you. There is a quality of one flavor, or one taste.

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

You baby boomers have forgotten who you are. It's time to step back up and finish what you started.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

You ask why I stay in the mountains and I smile without speaking. My heart content, peach blossoms float into the distance. There’s another realm beyond the world of man.