People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

We live in a body that is like a house we can live in during one life. Some love the body and become attached to it. Some consider the body everything, and some even think “I am the body.” Some people may not like or love their body. Undoubtedly, we may wonder why so many people dislike their bodies since they chose them. Their suffering is the result of their own ignorance. Indeed, all suffering is due to ignorance. “I do not like this body; I want to change it. I do not look nice; I am ugly.”

Although we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony.

People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light.

People cannot stand too much Reality.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world.

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied – ‘This should not happen to me.’ It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

Temples are not the madhouses of people who believe a stone image to be God. Temples are schools of humanity, abodes of peace, lands of compromise and purification, centers of hope and centers of inspiration and concentration.

We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.