Occupation: Writer Birth: September 4, 1931 Death: June 2, 1987
A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories..
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, beca….
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not att….
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admire….
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description..
Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our t….
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas..
Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed..
A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together"..
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality..
People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg.
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river..
So love the thought of death, love it..
Problems only exist in the human mind..
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go.
The best things in life cannot be willed into being..
You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life….
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel..
A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a perso….
My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do w….
The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers..