Quotes on Life

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

Never lie under any circumstances.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.