Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown. . . . Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.