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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.
To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.