• "The heart is always true. And the head is never true. The heart is never untrue and the head is never true. The head lives in lies, it lives on lies. It exists in all kinds of falsehoods. The heart is authentic, it is sincere. It is simple, it is not cunning. It is tremendously intelligent but not cunning. It simply reflects that which is. That's its beauty and its truth. God is never known through the head. Anything that has any value is never known through the head. Love, beauty, God—they are all known through the heart. The heart is the gateless gate to reality." - Osho

  • "Hear the best with your ears and ponder with a bright mind. Then each man and woman, for his or her self, select either of the two. Awaken to this Doctrine of ours before the Great Event of Choice ushers in. Now, the two foremost mentalities, known to be imaginary twins, are the better and the bad in thoughts, words, and deeds. Of these the beneficent choose correctly, but not so the maleficent." - Zarathustra

  • "Cut the root of a living tree, And its hundreds of thousands of branches and leaves will wither. Likewise, by severing the root of the mind, the foliage of saṃsāra will perish." - Tilopa

  • "My message to humanity is: create a new man – unsplit, integrated, whole. Buddha is not whole, neither is Zorba the Greek; both are half and half. I love Zorba, I love Buddha – but when I look into the deepest core of Zorba something is missing: he has no soul. When I look into Buddha something again is missing: he has no body. I teach a great meeting: the meeting of Zorba and Buddha. I teach Zorba The Buddha – a new synthesis." - Osho

  • "Work on oneself must begin with the driver. The driver is the mind. In order to be able to hear the master's voice, the driver, first of all, must not be asleep, that is, he must wake up. Then it may prove that the master speaks a language that the driver does not understand. The driver must learn this language. When he has learned it, he will understand the master. But concurrently with this he must learn to drive the horse, to harness it to the carriage, to feed it and groom it, and to keep the carriage in order—because what would be the use of his understanding the master if he is not in a position to do anything? The master tells him to go yonder. But he is unable to move, because the horse has not been fed, it is not harnessed, and he does not know where the reins are. The horse is our emotions. The carriage is the body. The mind must learn to control the emotions. The emotions always pull the body after them." - Gurdjieff