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“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”

“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

“Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.”

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

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

“Meaning is mancreated. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”

“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”

“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”

“This is the secret of life: to be non-serious but absolutely involved.”

“Whatever you do willingly, you enjoy. Whatever you do unwillingly, you suffer.”

“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”

“Sweat more during peace; bleed less during war.”

“We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.”

“I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”

“You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”

“Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.”