Amma

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

She isn’t the sunrise, she’s the f**king sun.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.