Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner..

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becomin….

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them..

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restles….

When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thou….

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, ….

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness….

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully ….

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the….

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God..

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference..

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new..

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?.

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know th….

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself..

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value..

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source ….

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves..

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane..

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, wit….