Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions.

any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

Appearances, sound, and phenomena are your own mind. There are no phenomena apart from mind.

Aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige -while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry?

Arrogant people are so involved with themselves and they are competing so much with others that they won’t even look. When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution.

As a day well spent makes it sweet to sleep, so a life well used makes it sweet to die.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

as long as one is in any way held by the domination of cupiditas, the veil is not lifted, and the heights of consciousness, empty of content and free of illusion, are not reached, nor can any trick nor any deceit bring it about.

As long as you are concerned about what you do, this is dualistic… If you are not concerned about what you do… When you sit, you will sit. When you eat, you will eat. That is all… your mind pervades your whole body.

As long as you think, ‘I must attain something special,’ you are actually not doing anything. When you give up, when you no longer want something… then you do something.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

As soon as your born they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all… A working class hero is something to be.

As the Godhead is nameless, and all naming is alien to Him so also the soul is nameless; for it is here the same as God.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

As with a tree, the more of it there is, the farther it is from its roots. The less of it there is, the closer it is to its roots. ‘More’ means more distanat from what is real. ‘Less’ means closer.

At 15, I set my mind and heart on learning. At 30, I stood on my own. At 40 I had no doubts. At 50 I knew heaven’s decree. At 60 my ears were in accord. At 70 I followed the desires of my mind -and-heart.