"Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you."

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"If there were no beauty in the observer then he would not find beauty outside. The mere fact that beauty is seen proves that there is beauty already present in the being of the observer."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

"No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself."

"To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment."

"Silence is a source of great strength."

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."