Be - don't try to become

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Beyond right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Clear your thoughtfree wakefulness and remain lucid like a crystal.

Contentment arises from non-attachment.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Elevate your experience and remain wide-open like the sky.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Empty of desire, perceive mystery. Filled with desire, perceive manifestations.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. [...] Be water, my friend.

Everything in life is vibration.

Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth.

Food is Brahman.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

What about your mind, does it shine? Are there things that concern you more than your time? [...] Gone people all awkward with their things, gone.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be.

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Make each day your masterpiece.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life.

The plants, they just don't scream as loud.

For the individual, one truth or one religion is essential, [...] it is very important to make clear that all religious traditions have the same message: love, compassion and contentment.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.

Our ideas about death define how we live our lives.

The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.

Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The music is not in the notes but in the silence between them.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Spiritual growth is the sole purpose of our life here on earth.

Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.

Spend some time alone every day.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

We are preprogrammed and reprogrammable

What you seek is seeking you.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.