Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.
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.
The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?