The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain
If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.