You can read books without ever stepping into a library, and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

I hate all national flags, because they are idols. What do we salute? I salute humanity, not a flag surrounded by an army.

It is not human to live to appease external expectation, paying attention to how we dress, how we comb out hair.

Get rid of your illusions, and you'll find your happiness within yourself.

You never live so fully as when you gamble with your own life.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

What makes one a genius? The ability to recognize the butterfly in a catterpillar; the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, But I do not cli