“Everything around you is your teacher.”

“I thought you understood," he said. "The world is your teacher. It will be all around you. The ocean and the wind and the stars and the moon will all teach you many things.”

“Your own self is your ultimate teacher (sadguru). The outer teacher (Guru) is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher, that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal.”

“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”

“Not everything that goes around comes back around, you know.”

“People are chameleons, and you adapt to your surroundings. If you're not willing to put the right people around you or stick to the right group of friends or keep the right influences around you, it makes everything more difficult.”

“Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.”

“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”

“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.”

“I unpetalled you, like a rose,
to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.
But everything around
-horizons of land and of seas-,
everything, out to the infinite,
was filled with a fragrance,
enormous and alive.”