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"The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident."
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"When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!"

"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."

"Trying to get prosperity through laying of hands is running after shadows."

"Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them."

"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist."
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."


"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."


"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."


"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."


"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
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