One great cause of failure is lack on concentration.

The moment we stop analyzing and let go, we can start really seeing, feeling – as one whole.

There is no need to exert oneself in special cultivation outside the daily round of living.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

The present? Well, think of it in terms of challenges and opportunities, and the rewards available for the application of your talents and energies.

As for the future, that is a time and a place where every worthy ambition you posses is within your grasp.

In a time when everything goes well, my mind is pampered with enjoyment, possessiveness, etc. Only in times of adversity, privation, or mishap, does my mind function and think properly of my state. This close examination of self strengthens my mind and leads me to understand and be understood.

Here is natural instinct, and there is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. If you have one to the extreme you will be very unscientific; if you have another to the extreme, you become a mechanical man, no longer human being.

So it is a successful combination of both. It is not pure naturalness, or pure unnaturalness. The ideal is unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness.

When my tutor assisted me in choosing my courses, he advised me to take up philosophy because of my inquisitiveness. He said, “philosophy will tell you what man lives for”.

Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.

Just as the maintaining of good health may require the taking of unpleasant medicine, so the condition of being able to do the things we enjoy often requires the performance of a few we don’t.

It is the ego that stands rigidly against things coming from the outside, and it is this “ego rigidity” that makes it impossible for us to accept everything that confronts us.

One should get rid of this obtruding self – or ego-consciousness – and apply himself to the work to be done as if nothing particular were taking place at the moment.

Logic’s central problem is the distinction between correct and incorrect argument.

Emotions – the most important motors of our behavior.

Art is communication of feelings.

Art must originate with an experience or feeling of the artist.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world without.

Art is the way of the Absolute and to the essence of human life – creative action, with sensitivity, that positive state of innocence.

Art is an expression of life and transcends both time and space.

I never wanted a job in an office or any job that I had to work eight hours a day at – day in and day out. I don’t think I could have stood it.

The true artist has no public; he works for the sheer joy of it, with an element of playfulness, of casualness.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

If you are in the now, you are creative.

If you are in the now, you are inventive.

One must not merely copy but try to convey the significance of what you see.

Art is the perfection of nature and life through the artist, who has supreme control of technique and is thereby liberated from it.

Art is really the expression of the self. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less the opportunity for the expression of one’s original sense of freedom.

Artists in all fields must learn to observe choicelessly, to digest their observations, and to express them in their work.

I’m not the type of guy who can sit in the office doing the same routine day in and day out. I have to do something that is creative and interesting to me.

True observation begins when one is devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

It is the creative ability of a human being that separates him from all other animals.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity – art has no ego rigidity.

The human soul is what interests me. I live to express myself freely in creation.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Through art our own souls are what we must employ to give a new form and a new meaning to Nature or the world.

To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Art demands only immediate, honest and whole-hearted action.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

With adversity you are shocked to higher levels, much like a rain storm that is so violent, but yet afterwards all plant grows.

Recognizing the influence of my subconscious mind over my power of will, I shall take care to submit to it a clear and definite picture of my Major Purpose in life and all minor purposes leading to my major purpose, and I shall keep this picture constantly before my subconscious mind by repeating it daily.

There is an awareness without choice, without any demand, an awareness in which there is no anxiety; and in that state of mind there is perception. It is the perception alone that will resolve all your problems.

Don’t be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can’t turn it into a defense.

Sincere and serious learners are difficult to come by. Many of them are five minute enthusiasts, some of them come in with ill intentions, but unfortunately, most of them are second-hand artists; basically conformers.

No accidents are so unlucky but that the wise may draw some advantage from them; nor are there any so lucky but that the foolish may turn them to their own prejudice.

To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

Are you doing to make your obstacles stepping stones to your dreams, or stumbling blocks because unknowingly you let negativeness, worries, fear, etc., take you over?

When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.

Self-education makes great men.