Quotes on Deep Thought

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

An idea is a feat of association.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?