“He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .”

“Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.”

“While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.”

“Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.”

“This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.”

“भावस्य भावकः कश्चिन् न किंचिद् भावकोपरः । उभयाभावकः कश्चिद् एवमेव निराकुलः ॥ १८- ४२॥”

“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”

“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”

“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snu...”