Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

I’m an emotional person.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.