I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to.
When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.
You can plan for a hundred years. But you don't know what will happen the next moment.
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart. . . You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of good can come about, is to let the ego play God-and that, as you know, can and does backfire.
If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.
Every line of the Hanuman Chalisa is a Mahamantra.
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.