Occupation: Writer Birth: September 4, 1931 Death: June 2, 1987
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience….
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego..
Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the….
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself..
The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one..
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach..
The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic..
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love know….
One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, l….
You sanctify whatever you are grateful for..
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell..
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, ….
If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?.
All conflict comes from attachment..
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us..
The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, t….
A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father….
Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belo….
All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone..
If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love..
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology..