You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I’m an emotional person.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

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

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.