One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Dont be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Givers gain and takers lose - that is the law.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied; something or other will remain to be changed. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

When walking - walk. When sitting - sit. But don't wobble!

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

To climb upwards will be easier if you take others with you.

Love, and do what you like.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

Don't be sorry, be content - it's a choice not a chore. Never identify with others' sorrow or you will go down with them. Be with them, but stay up, so you can uplift them. Help them put things in perspective. But first do that for yourself. Your feeling sorry? Why? Have you lost something? It's an illusion - you have nothing to lose. Everything that comes to you comes to pass, literally. So let all things pass and you will turn the illusion of loss into the reality of liberation...and sorrow will be a distant memory.

The future is a book with seven locks.

He that travels much knows much.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise. Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals, have come to a completion.... Certainly, to be full of spring yourself is far more beautiful than the autumn dew falling on the lotus leaves. That is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dew falls on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real pearls. But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises, the autumn dew starts evaporating.... This temporary beauty cannot be compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being. Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to shower on you. This is spiritual spring.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no mans power to live long.

And in the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years.

Deep inside our consciousness is an oasis of peace. This is the molten core of the soul, but it is not hot, it is cool. Not passive, but a source of inner power to fuel our mind and intellect, so that we can create powerful thoughts and make accurate decisions. If you can learn to go to this centre, peace will be your companion, positivity your partner, and you will be able to chill out in one second, anywhere, anytime. Returning to the centre of your self is the journey of one second. It is the regular destination of clever souls. And it is the source of your power and peace.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

If booze is in the man, wisdom is in the can.

The search for meaning is not limited to science: it is constant and continuous--all of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no absolute boundaries separating them. One can find meaning in poetry as well as in science in the contemplations of a flower as well as in the grasp of an equation. We can be filled with wonder as we stand under the majestic dome of the night sky and see the myriad lights that twinkle and shine in its seemingly infinite depths. We can also be filled wit awe as we behold the meaning of the formulae that define the propagation of light in space, the formation of galaxies, the synthesis of chemical elements, and the relation of energy, mass and velocity in the physical universe. The mystical perception of oneness and the religious intuition of a Divine intelligence are as much a construction of meaning as the postulation of the universal law of gravitation.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

In a cinema hall, you look at the screen, you never look at the back - the projector is at the back. The film is not there really on the screen; it is just a projection of shadow and light. The film exists just at the back, but you never look at that. And the projector is there. Your mind is at the back of the whole thing, and the mind is the projector. But you always look at the other, because the other is the screen. When you are in love the person seems beautiful, no comparison. When you hate, the same person seems the ugliest, and you never become aware of how the same person can be the ugliest and the same person can be the most beautiful.... So the only way to reach to truth is to learn how to be immediate in your vision, how to drop the help of the mind. This agency of the mind is the problem, because mind can create only dreams.... Through your excitement the dream starts looking like reality. If you are too excited then you are intoxicated, then you are not in your senses. Then whatsoever you see is just your projection. And there are as many worlds as there are minds, because every mind lives in his own world.

Remember: Success is nothing but luck. Just ask any failure.

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Self interest clearly lies in considering the interests of others.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words - shunyata. The English word, the English equivalent, "nothingness", is not such a beautiful word. Thats why I would like to make it "no-thingness" - because the nothing is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all. In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious - why create such despair? Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.