The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.
When you can bear your own silence, you are free.
You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.
How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?
The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.
Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.
I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.
If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.
I didn't get any college credit for playing in Vampire Weekend, you know. So it was definitely an early hurdle to get over with C. T. winning and us losing to C. T. . But I think sorta since then, in the four years since, we've managed to pave everything over.
There was never a night that had no morn.