A Library of Wisdom

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

“Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.”

“Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.”

“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.”

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first.”

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”

“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.”

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world.”

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.”

“I've talked to nearly 30,000 people on this show, and all 30,000 had one thing in common: they all wanted validation.”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.”

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“Community building isn't a side effect of great events—it's the entire purpose. Everything else is logistics.”

“A festival is a form of collective memory. It's where a community comes together to say 'this matters to us.'”

“The purpose of meditation is not to reach a goal; the purpose is the journey itself.”

“The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.”

“Gratitude is the antidote to fear.”

“The greatest illusion is that life happens to you rather than through you.”

“To find peace, stop fighting with yourself.”

“The wound is not in the body; the wound is in the ego. Heal your ego and the body will follow.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin.”

“The self cannot be known objectively because it is the very subject of knowledge itself.”

“Suffering is the first arrow; our resistance to it is the second.”

“The greatest religion is to be true to this life, to make the most of what is here and now.”

“You cannot travel on the path until you become the path yourself.”